Package org.openide.windows Description

Interfaces for working with input/output tabs.

A few other parts of NetBeans use the Output Window to display
messages from a running process or operation of some sort - for
example, the progress of compilation, or status messages from the
Java parser.

The Output Window is organized into tabs, each of which is
capable of handling both input and output.
IOProvider.getIO(String, boolean)
will get the
InputOutput
handle for one tab of the output window. Frequently, though, such a
tab will be created by NetBeans implementation code and passed to your
code automatically.